Garment-fastener.



No. 735,655. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.

A. J. BRADLEY. GARMENT PASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1902.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED. STATES ANDREW J BRADLEY,

Patented August 4:, 1903.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARM ENT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,655, dated August4, 1903.

Application filed July 3, 1902. seam No. 114,707. (No model.)

T0 all whom it nuty concern:

Be it known that 1, ANDREW J. BRADLEY, a citizen ofthe United States,and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Garment-Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to garment-fasteners, and has for its principalobject to simplify and cheapen the construction and manufacture ofgarment-fasteners.

It consists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, andwherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur, Figure 1is a cross-section of my fastener with its members interlocked. Fig. 2is a top view of the disk of the socket member. Fig. 3 is a section ofsaid disk. Fig. 4 is a top view, and Fig. 5 is a section, of the splitring of the socket member. Fig. 6 is a top view, and Fig. 7 is asection, of the stud member. Fig. 8 is a cross-section of the socketmember.

My invention comprises a stud member A, adapted to be attached to oneportion of a garment or fabric 0, and a socket member B for cooperatingwith said stud member and adapted to be attached to another portion ofthe garment or fabric C.

The stud member A comprises a metal plate or disk 1, having its centralportion drawn or otherwise formed into a headed stud-that is, having ashank portion 2 with an enlarged rounded head 3 thereon. The ed ge ofthe plate or disk is struck up or beaded to increase its rigidity. Holes4 are formed through the disk suitable for sewing thread therethrough.

The socket member 13 comprises a disk or plate 5, whose middle portion 6is offset from the plane of the main portion of the disk. This middleofiset portion 6 has a hole 7 in its center. In this hole, 7 isarrangedasplit ring 8 of resilient sheet metal. These two pieces namely,the disk and the split ringconstitute the entire socket member. In orderto mount this ring 8 in proper position, the edge of the opening in theoifset portion 6 of the disk 5 is bent toward the plane of the disk. Themain body of the split ring 8 is in substantially the opening 7 in theoffset portion.

same plane as the disk 5; but the inner edge of said ring is curled orbent outwardly and backwardly, so as to constitute a tubular thimblearound the inclined inner edge of the The ring is thus firmly mounted onthe disk in position to allow it to enlarge and contract its opening. Byreason of the manner in which the split ring is curled around the edgeof the hole in the disk the expansion of the ring is limited by itscoming in contact with the edge of said opening, whereby the split ringis protected against undue enlargement and all strains in the directionof the plane of the disk are transferred from the ring to the diskitself. The normal size of the opening in the ring is slightly less thanthe diameter of the head 3 of the stud. The socket member is providedwith holes 11, whereby it may be sewed on the garment. ring and theholes 11 for the thread the disk is continuousthat is, it has no radialslit therein.

The operation of the device is as follows: The stud member A being sewedon one portion of the garment and the socket memberB on another portionare interlocked by merely pressing the stud-head 3 into the opening ofthe split ring or thimble S. This opening is enlarged by the pressuresufficiently to let the head pass therethrough, whereupon the resiliencyof said split ring or thimble contracts its opening and causes said ringor thimble to interlock with the head.

'What I claim isk A two-piece socket member fora garmentfastenerconsisting of a continuous disk having its middle portion ofiset and anopening in said offset portion, the edge of said opening being turnedback toward the plane of the disk, and a resilient split ring curledover the edge of said opening, whereby the edge of said Aside from thehole 7 for the split opening limits the expansion of the ring and takesup strains in the plane of the ring, substantially as described.

. ANDREW J. BRADLEY.

\Vitnesses:

LAURA B.'PERK1Ns,

WILBUR W. CooMBs.

